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“civilization has absolutely no need of nobility or heroism. These things are symptoms of political inefficiency. In a properly organized society like ours, nobody…

— Aldous Huxley

“...civilization has absolutely no need of nobility or heroism. These things are symptoms of political inefficiency. In a properly organized society like ours, nobody…

— Aldous Huxley

“I think something innate in us understands that seeking the good of society is usually best for the individual as well. Humankind is noble,…

— Brandon Sanderson

It is perhaps common in the world for individuals and nations to suffer for their noble qualities more than for their ignoble ones. For…

— Daniel Patrick Moynihan

“what makes and ordinary person heroic is when they give up the thing they want most”

— Jane Heller

“Personal nobility is greater than any calling, or any reward that it can bring.”

— Orison Swett Marden

“Being noble enough is all we can ask for in this world.”

— Lemony Snicket

“There isn’t anything noble about being superior to another person. True nobility is in being superior to the person you once were.”

— Ziad K. Abdelnour

“To be heroic does not have to mean possessing the ability to stand against the evils of the world, either well or successfully, but…

— Mike Alsford

“Often the poor have more nobility in them than the actual nobility.”

— Amish Tripathi

Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and…

— Frank Lloyd Wright

“Nobility is often no more than the inner aspect which our egotistical feelings assume when we have not yet named and classified them.”

— Marcel Proust